There was a time when thephilologists were disposed to confuse languages and races, and to suppose that people who once all spoke the same tongue must be all of the same blood.
Next to Aryan, philologists distinguish another group of languages which seem to have been made quite separately from the Aryan languages, the Semitic.
This is the conclusion to which philologistshave now very generally come.
This, of course, is in contradiction to the doctrine of the sentence having been historically prior to the word, which, as we have seen, is the doctrine now held by philologists in general.
There is a difference of opinion among philologists as to the extent in which modifying constants were themselves originally roots.
In the opinion of most philologists we have here a survival of the root stage of language; but in the opinion of some we have the remnants of erosion, or “phonetic decay.
But this assumption is well known by philologiststo be false.
By philologists these orders are usually called “groups,” and whether or not there is any genetic relation among them is still an unsettled question.
Compare quotations from the German philologists in support of the first hypothesis, pp.
Of these types all philologists are agreed in distinguishing between the Isolating, the Agglutinating, and the Inflectional.
This term has been previously used by some philologists to signify ejaculation by man.
The comparative philologists have not gone deep enough, as yet, to see that there is a stage where likeness may afford guidance, because there was a common origin for the primordial stock of words.
Prince of Philologists that I formed my opinion of the sect.
I have heard of literary men living in garrets, but not in dingles, whatever philologists may do; I may, therefore, speak out freely.
We commend to the attention of philologists Das Gothische Runenalphabet, (or The Gothic Runic Alphabet,) recently published by HERTZ of Berlin.
If with philologists he is deemed a man of merit, it may with equal justice be said that he is to be recognized by medical men as an author of importance, for his History of Pestilence.
There will be found among the Arab authors of this period many philologists who also wrote upon other matters, but have been recorded here as having particularly excelled in this particular branch of learning.
Besides some historians, grammarians, philologistsand poets, the eleventh century of the Hijrah (A.
What is here said, was seen by eminent philologists like Fr.
But, in fact, the evidence as to Old English dialects is more scanty and more conflicting than philologists have always been willing to admit.
Most philologists explain the development of cl, gl into l´ (cf.
Since then I have been collecting material both from my own examination of texts and from the works of those philologists who have dealt with the subject.
But until the learned philologists who deny that authorship in whole or in part agree a little better among themselves, they must allow literary critics at least to suspend their judgment.
There are philologists who maintain that the first words were merely a clearing of the ideas, a sort of talking to oneself.
Many of the old philologists used to do this, and then write down their guesses as facts.
It is the argument of the philologists that these fancies and reflections settled into definite shape in that far-away period when most of the nations, now spread to the remotest corners of the earth, dwelt together and used a common language.
We must be careful, however, to distinguish between the Aryans and Celts of the philologists and archæologists.
The advanced group of philologists held, indeed, that no racial centre could be located.
The evidence accumulated is certainly suggestive, and shows that the conclusions of the early philologists have been narrow in the extreme.
Another mistake of the same sort is that of roots, to which the most able philologists now accord but a very limited value.
Philologists frequently blame their own ignorance and impotence, if they do not always succeed in reducing plurisyllabism to monosyllabism, and they trust in the future.
We must here note a mistake into which have fallen those very philologists who have best penetrated the active nature of language.
Philologists opposed this view in their most zealous and ablest representative, Doctor Budenz, a German by birth; he pleaded with all the enthusiasm of an etymological philologist for the eminently Ugrian character of the Magyar tongue.
The recognition which this little book received from my fellow-philologists was most gratifying to me, and was the chief cause which led me to write about-- 7.
It will be seen that very various and absolutely inconsistent etymologies and meanings of Cronus are suggested by philologists of the highest authority.
Philologists attempt to explain the metamorphoses as the result of some oblivion and confusion of language.
In Rosscher's Ausfuehrliches Lexikon of Greek and Roman mythology, the earlier method of the philologists is usually adopted, and the work, still in course of publication, is most useful for its recondite learning.
It has, however, been maintained by several philologists that there is no evidence of an Asiatic origin of the European nations.
It was at one time thought by philologists that in Chinese we had a genuine specimen of a language in the radical stage of formation.
Even now there is a school of philologists and anthropologists that denies the premise upon which this theory rests--the radical origin of all language.
Even on the subject of language the views of one (small) school of philologists had to be relegated in like manner to the Appendix.
In this probably all recent philologists admit that Schleicher went too far.
At the time, one of the foremost German philologists was August Schleicher, Professor at Jena.
But later writers, among these some of the most distinguished philologists of Europe, are willing to let it rank among the earliest books of the East, and as entitled to an antiquity at least six centuries anterior to the Christian era.
Grotefend, one of the most sagacious and distinguished philologists of Europe.
The brilliant success which attended Grotefend's earlier efforts, soon attracted the attention of other philologists to the subject.
The language in which they are written has been found to exhibit close affinities both to the Sanscrit and to the Zend, and is now termed by philologists the Old Persian.
Some philologists believe that it grew up with the decline of the old Persian, or was formed on its basis, with an infusion from the Sanscrit, Median, and Scythic languages.
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